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Hi, I’m leaving this site as I can’t read them all and I get caught up for hours reading newsletters on health issues and articles. I just can’t spend the time and have to shut it down somewhere. It’s easier to cancel receiving them than going through to delete them and lingering at the computer for so long. I’ve been sidetracked at your site for a couple of hrs, I’d guess. Sorry.
Thank you for your honesty! I’ve unsubscribed from e-mail updates in the past for the same reason, when I can’t keep up with them all, so I understand. Right now I publish new posts on M-W-F (many bloggers post once a day or more), and I’ve debated about posting less often, but also want to keep the site fresh – it’s difficult to know the best thing to do. In the meantime, I hope what you’ve read so far was helpful to you and that you’ll come back now and then when you have a chance.
Thanks again for your comment!
Kelly
Kelly,
I enjoy your site but often get overloaded with e-mail updates, so can’t read them all. But the point of this note is to comment on the use of the term healthy.
Since food is inanimate, most of it being dead upon consumption, healthy is not a proper descriptor of it, either as a noun or an adjective.
Food can be nutritious and it can be healthful, if it promotes health and is consumed in the way that you suggest.
A diet, being inanimate, just a concept, can’t be healthy either, though, I will concede that a life style can be a healthy one.
No, I’m not an English teacher, but am someone who is in the business of fashioning communications. I advocate the use of crisp, accurate, terminology and, always, correct syntax. It’s through a web site like yours that you could contribute to the preservation of our language heritage.
Jack
Hi Jack,
I know you said you’re not an English teacher, but I’m pretty sure that reading my blog would be a frustrating experience for Mrs. Kohrman, who WAS my English teacher!
I’ll just keep doing my best and rely on others, like you, to help me along now and then.
Kelly
I recently looked up the word “healthy” again (and again, because I keep forgetting, and I know I use it wrong all the time), and here’s what I found on Dictionary.com:
“Usage Note: The distinction in meaning between healthy (“possessing good health”) and healthful (“conducive to good health”) was ascribed to the two terms only as late as the 1880s. This distinction, though tenaciously supported by some critics, is belied by citational evidence—healthy has been used to mean “healthful” since the 16th century. Use of healthy in this sense is to be found in the works of many distinguished writers, with this example from John Locke being typical: “Gardening . . . and working in wood, are fit and healthy recreations for a man of study or business.” Therefore, both healthy and healthful are correct in these contexts: a healthy climate, a healthful climate; a healthful diet, a healthy diet.”
If I understand this correctly, I can interchange these words “legally” in the context that I normally use it…which is good, because I do so in almost every post I write.
Regardless of which word is correct grammatically, more importantly, let’s look at it from an SEO perspective (yes, I’m OBSESSED w/ SEO lately).
When I search for “healthful food” and “healthy food” in Google’s keyword tool, “healthy food” was searched for in Google approximately 135,000 times in Jan (estimate). “Healthful food” was searched for approx. 260 times.
So clearly, “healthy food” is what most people think of when they are entering keywords. They don’t tend to use “healthful food”.
That said, when you type in healthy food to Google’s search bar, you get 39,300,000 results. So it’s not a good keyword — you could never compete!
If you type in healthful food, however you get 349,000 results. Much more feasible.
It’s probably best to use both — since Google does give points for synonyms and related phrases.
And let’s not forget “healthily” and “healthfully,” two words that are knocking on obsolete status, chosen less often than the oft misused “healthy.” As the wife of an editor, I take a lot of liberties and shortcuts with the English language. But, “Eats, Shoots and Leaves” has earned a permanent place on my top 10 favorite book list. Full of contradictions, I.
LN, you made me chuckle.
For those who don’t know what Ann Marie is talking about, “SEO” is “search engine optimization”. If you don’t have a blog, you don’t need to worry about it. If you DO have a blog, and one that you’d like to grow, then you think a LOT about it!
Cheeseslave- don’t forget that even though there is a lot of competition for these keywords that not much of the competition is from people who are actually trying to rank for these terms, and even fewer actually know and understand SEO.
That said, I’d love to give Kelly a few good back links, but I’m not sure what terms you’re aiming for?